Does a real video show a professor screaming at her students that using a product called Turbo AI is cheating, while rolling on the floor of a lecture hall, red-faced? No, that's not true: This video is one of more than a dozen identically screen-titled fake videos that swap in different "professors" and classrooms. Visual anomalies reveal the AI origin of the video, which prominently mentions student use of Turbo AI, likely to promote name recognition for the AI note-taking and flashcard-creating service for students.
This video was posted to TikTok Nov. 15, 2025 (archived here) on the studyvamp account with the on-screen caption: "when your professor has a full on mental breakdown over the class using ai". Text posted with the video said:
all that just for using turbo ai? 🥀 #college #professor #lecture #crashout
This is what the video looked like on TikTok at the time of writing:
(Image source: Lead Stories screenshot of video at tiktok.com/@studyvamp/video/7572809869728697655.)
Evidence of AI origin of the video
1. Disappearing black object on floor
As is sometimes the case with generative AI videos assessed by Lead Stories fact checkers, objects magically appear, disappear and violate the laws of physics by permitting human parts to pass through them. In this case, a black object about the size of two hockey pucks appears on the floor during the professor's rant and then suddenly disappears.
(Image source: Lead Stories screenshots of video at tiktok.com/@studyvamp/video/7572809869728697655 arranged for comparison in graphic.)
2. It's one of more than a dozen similar videos with the identical on-screen titling:
Lead stories found dozens of similar videos at the studyvamp account and in the main playlist, 13 of the first 18 videos had the exact same on-screen titling and three had nearly-identical on-screen titles. The professors, most of them turning red, deliver the same rant:
Stop recording and generating your notes and study material. Turbo AI is cheating! Do you hear me?
I can't do this anymore.
(Image source: Lead Stories screenshot of video at tiktok.com/@studyvamp/video/7572809869728697655.)
3. Original poster says the account is "powered by @Turbo AI"
(Image source: Lead Stories screenshot of bio at tiktok.com/@studyvamp/video/7572809869728697655.)
In common parlance, one might infer that this means the TikTok account @studyvamp is produced using generative AI, although it's unclear what it means in this case, though it may be related to "Turboship" an internship/creators school to teach users of the service how to become social media influencers.
The ad for it on Instagram (archived here) says students learn to create posts and campaigns for Turbo AI, which could explain the proliferation of videos spreading Turbo AI's name:
(Image source: Lead Stories screenshot of Instagram post at thesocialcreativesclub account.)
We have written to Turbo AI's founder to learn if the service provides ai video generation and what Turbo AI's connection is to the videos and we will update this fact check when they reply.
